{"id":232248,"date":"2025-07-02T14:52:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T14:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/232248\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T14:52:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T14:52:13","slug":"comedy-night-to-raise-funds-for-integrated-education-in-northern-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/232248\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedy night to raise funds for integrated education in Northern Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/viewdigital.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/comedy.jpg\" data-caption=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" width=\"696\" height=\"354\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/comedy-696x354.jpg\"  data- alt=\"\" title=\"ccomedy night (1440 x 732 px) - 3\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A number of well-known comedians will take to the stage at the Ulster Hall in Belfast this October in support of integrated education in Northern Ireland.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tim McGarry, Wendy Wason and Colin Murphy are among the headline acts confirmed for Stand-Up for Integrated Education, a one-night comedy fundraiser organised by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ief.org.uk\/our-work\/research\/people-schools-and-borders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Integrated Education Fund<\/a> (IEF). The event takes place on Thursday, October 16 and runs from 8.00pm to 10.15pm.<\/p>\n<p>The night will be hosted by Colin Murphy, familiar to audiences from his long-running appearances on BBC\u2019s The Blame Game and RT\u00c9\u2019s The Panel.<\/p>\n<p>Joining him on the bill is Tim McGarry, best known for his role in the long-running sitcom Give My Head Peace and for co-hosting The Long and the Short of It on BBC Radio Ulster and BBC Northern Ireland. McGarry said he was \u201cdelighted to be back in the Ulster Hall\u201d and encouraged people to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Scottish comedian Wendy Wason, who has appeared in The IT Crowd, Coupling, and Broken News, is also set to perform. She described performing in Belfast as \u201ca real joy\u201d and said there was a shared spirit between Scots and Northern Irish audiences.<\/p>\n<p>The comedians will be joined on the night by a special guest.<\/p>\n<p>The show is the latest in a series of IEF comedy nights, which regularly sell out. Proceeds from the event will go towards the charity\u2019s work supporting integrated schools and promoting integrated education across the region.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are priced at \u00a327.50 plus booking fee and are available via <a>ulsterhall.co.uk<\/a>. The event is supported by the McCall Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Support social affairs journalism \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/viewdigital.org\/sign-up-to-the-digital-edition-of-view-magazine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">subscribe to VIEWdigital<\/a>\u00a0for \u00a33.33 a month<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/viewdigital.org\/sign-up-to-the-digital-edition-of-view-magazine\/\" class=\"td_spot_img_all\" role=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/header_TOP_ad-SIGN-UP-to-the-digital-edition-of-VIEW-magazine.jpg\" alt=\"spot_img\" data-ll-status=\"loaded\" class=\"entered litespeed-loaded\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a>        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A number of well-known comedians will take to the stage at the Ulster Hall in Belfast this October&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[4021,2378,2197,91148,1144,44593,91149,16,43080,15,80751],"class_list":{"0":"post-232248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-belfast","10":"tag-comedy","11":"tag-integrated-education","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-social-affairs","14":"tag-tim-mcgarry","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-ulster-hall","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-viewdigital"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114784209750767521","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}